Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, 1902
American State and city. The jury also especially com mended the Boston exhibit as bearing every indication of honest every-day work.
Of the authorized subjects, several have been forced into the front rank of essentials by modern social conditions. This is true of sewing, cooking, physical training and elementary science.
The same change in social conditions is responsible for the introduction of physical exercises into the schools. The limited Opportunities which the city affords for free play, and the small demands of modern home life upon the bodily activities of children, call for some counteracting efforts, and tentative beginnings have been made in various forms of school exercises.
Thus the Boston school course is not a miscellaneous collection of subjects brought together by the chance efforts of enthusiasts, but a conscious and intelligent effort of the people to frame a course of elementary instruction and training adapted to the changed condi tions of social life.
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